php-config: How is your php configured?

When you install php, your php is configured based on the packages present in your system at that time or sometimes with default value. To check these values, make use of the php_config. php_config gives all the information regarding how your php is configured.

$ php-config
Usage: /usr/bin/php-config [OPTION]
Options:
 --prefix            [/usr]
 --includes          [-I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib]
 --ldflags           [ -L/usr/lib/mysql]
 --libs              [  -lexslt -liodbc -lmysqlclient -lldap -llber -liconv -liconv -lssl -lcrypto -lcurl -lz -lssl -lcrypto -lm  -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -liodbc -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm -lxslt -lxml2 -lz -licucore -lm ]
 --extension-dir     [/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613]
 --include-dir       [/usr/include/php]
 --php-binary        [/usr/bin/php]
 --php-sapis         [cli apache2handler]
 --configure-options [--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli --with-zlib-dir=/usr --enable-trans-sid --with-xml --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-dbx --enable-sockets --with-iodbc=/usr --with-curl=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config --with-mysql=/usr --with-openssl --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl=/usr --without-pear]
 --version           [5.2.11]
 --vernum            [50211]

As you can see, various useful information like the version, the different library options can be found from this.

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